Forest inventories with Aiborne Laser Scanning: Area- and individual tree approaches

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Overview

  • What is ITD / ITS?
  • How it differs from ABA?
  • How can it be applied?
  • How accurate it is?
  • What are the pros and cons?
  • Examples of different algorithms

Lidar-based inventories: two approaches

Area-based approach

Individual tree approach

UAV lidar + tree detection

Puliti, S., Pearse, G., Surový, P., Wallace, L., Hollaus, M., Wielgosz, M., & Astrup, R. (2023). FOR-instance: a UAV laser scanning benchmark dataset for semantic and instance segmentation of individual trees (Version 1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8287792